Around this time of the year, MLB general managers have the difficult task of managing their 40-man rosters. Sometimes it results it good players being lost to another organization, and every now and then it can bite you in the rear end, like, Gio Urshela‘s unexpected emergence with the Yankees last year after the Blue Jays had to move him to make roster space.
Misevaluating a player can be costly, and it’s an especially difficult pill to swallow when your former players land in the AL East with a division rival. That’s what happened with Urshela last year, and to a much lesser extend with Dwight Smith Jr.